All Europe Articles – Page 134
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Swiss gets new CEO in group realignment
Swiss has announced the appointment of a new chief executive as part of a broader realignment of the Lufthansa Group.Thomas Klühr, currently a member of the executive board of Lufthansa German Airlines, will succeed Harry Hohmeister as chief executive of Swiss in February 2016, with the position of chief operating ...
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Senior appointments at IATA
IATA has made two new senior management appointments covering safety and flight operations, and airport, passenger, cargo and security (APCS).The first appointment sees Nick Careen take up the role of senior vice president of APCS. He replaces Tom Windmuller, who retired from IATA after almost 25 years.IATA said the APCS ...
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Jettainer appoints Trapp as IT director
Lufthansa Cargo’s ULD management subsidiary, Jettainer, has appointed Arnd Trapp as its new IT director as it looks to enhance its container track and trace capabilities.Trapp has worked in the airfreight sector for more than 20 years, holding various management positions within the Lufthansa Group. Most recently head of the ...
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Florea joins CHAMP
Air cargo IT provider CHAMP Cargosystems has appointed Gabriel Florea as the new group chief financial officer, taking over from from Susan Boulton."Gabriel brings a wealth of knowledge in finance & controlling as well as multi-cultural competence to our organisation. He is a great addition to the CHAMP team and ...
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Zimmerman to lead Cargo 2000 change programme
Ariaen Zimmerman is the new full time executive director of Cargo 2000 (C2K), an IATA interest group established to lead the drive towards “enhanced quality throughout the air cargo industry”.Zimmerman is leading the group’s change programme, which will see C2K adopt a new auditing system, neutral benchmarks, and “embrace a ...
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Allport lands Damco's Kenning for supply chain role
Allport Cargo Services (ACS) has appointed Alan Kenning as executive director of its Supply Chain Management (SCM) division from rival forwarder Damco.Kenning has worked in logistics and supply chain management for more than 23 years, starting as a management trainee with Maersk in 1992 and working his way up through ...
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Freighters expected to win marketshare from bellyhold
Freighters are expected to maintain and even grow their marketshare compared with bellyhold despite the increased cargo carrying capacity of passenger planes that are joining the market.Speaking at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Atlas Air Worldwide executive vice president and chief commercial officer Michael Steen said that since ...
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IAG's new 787-9 Dreamliner packs a punch
IAG has taken delivery of its first 787-9 Dreamliner, a pharma-friendly bellyhold aircraft.While by no means the largest aircraft in the Anglo-Spanish carrier's fleet, the dash 9 variant of the Dreamliner will offer one of the largest cargo capacities — 22 tonnes over seven pallet positions — larger than a ...
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Forwarders welcome Transpacific Partnership agreement
The US Airforwarders Association (AFA) and Boeing have welcomed the conclusion of the Transpacific Partnership negotiations.Yesterday, the US, Japan and 10 other Pacific rim nations reached an agreement on what is set to become the world’s largest regional trade agreement.However, the agreement, described as a first step, now needs to ...
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Economic volatility rocks TNT's Q3
Europe-based parcel and logistics operator TNT said that “economic volatility” in Brazil, China and Australia weighed on the takeover target’s third quarter performance.TNT, which is the subject of a $4.8bn takeover bid by US parcels giant FedEx, said in its latest trading update that the management team “remains focused” on ...
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Aeroflot's takeover of troubled Transaero falls apart
Aeroflot’s proposed takeover of debt-laden Russian airline Transaero has fallen apart because the airline’s shareholders failed to submit a formal proposal in time.State-controlled Aeroflot’s board of directors said that Transaero shareholders had failed to submit the proposal before the deadline stipulated in a tender offer for a 75% stake in ...
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Cargolux analysis: China airline waiting in the wings
Cargolux boss Dirk Reich had a spring in his step when he arrived back at home hub Luxembourg aboard the European carrier’s new Boeing 747 freighter – the 13th ─ a plane dazzlingly bedecked with colourful images to celebrate the airline’s 45th anniversary.Reich, fresh and surprisingly un-jetlagged from the first ...
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Welcome relief: Focus on humanitarian aid charters
Africa’s Ebola virus, a typhoon in the Philippines and an earthquake in Nepal. Each humanitarian crisis is unique but they share a common factor: freighters help save lives.The air charter team at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is often a lead relief aid agency when a global disaster ...
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Tractor factor: Skylink wins IAG handling contract at Schiphol
Skylink Handling Services, the ground handling arm of Germany’s Rhenus Group, has been appointed by IAG Cargo as its air cargo handler at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.Skylink was awarded a three-year contract, which became effective from August 2015, by the airfreight division of British Airways and Iberia.Frans Meerens, branch manager, Skylink, ...
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Cargolux reveals details of its new Chinese cargo airline
Cargolux has outlined the details of its new cargo airline based in China, which will launch with three Boeing 747 aircraft on transpacific and intra-Asia routes, but then expand to five freighters within three years.Cargolux president and chief executive Dirk Reich, speaking in Luxembourg at the welcoming ceremony for the ...
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TNT wins Harding Safety air and road contract
TNT has been awarded a five-year contract covering air and road express services with supplier of lifesaving equipment, Harding Safety.TNT will become the exclusive carrier for all spares shipments for Harding Safety at global level and will provide a full range of express delivery services using its integrated road and ...
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Swiss WorldCargo to offer single process e-AWB to forwarders
Swiss WorldCargo has begun offering the electronic air waybill (e-AWB) single process, which it hopes will accelerate the adoption of the e-AWB throughout its network.The airline said that following a four month trial it now accepts single process e-AWB shipments in Zurich, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York JFK and Copenhagen.The ...
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AF KLM looks for deeper links with China Southern
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo is already looking beyond the first phase of its new freight network and ground handling partnership agreement with China Southern Cargo.Bram Gräber, executive vice president of the European carrier’s cargo division, said: “We are pragmatic cargo people, so let’s call this agreement phase one. It ...
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Moscow hub move for Transaero
Russian airline takeover target Transaero is moving all its flights at Moscow's Domodedovo airport to the capital’s Vnukovo airport from October 25.News of the relocation comes just a few weeks after rival Russian carrier Aeroflot confirmed that it is to acquire the assets and routes of debt-laden Transaero.The country’s second ...
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CAL to introduce third B747F by year end
CAL Cargo Airlines is to expand its freighter fleet with a third aircraft, a Boeing 747-400F which is set to join on a long term lease from late 2015 or early 2016.The Israel-headquartered niche freighter operator, hubbed out of Liege airport in Belgium, is in expansion mode and has just ...